We close the coverage of our fourth custom contest, which had “Asia/Oceania” as a theme, with the Radical class, which allows any and all modifications, unlimited cutting, blending of two castings, swapping parts from other cars, fabrication, anything. This class really brings to the front the creativity and resources of the customizer, but of course, always sticking to the theme of the contest. This time, Radical wasn’t as contested as other times, but the quality of the jobs that participated in this clas was the best of the entire contest.

As stated in our rulebook, every class was judged under the principle that the participating customs had to stick to the contest’s theme. Having said that, we leave you with the entries for this class and their customizers. Down bellow you’ll find the winners of the first three places, with a small photoshoot of each, as well as commentary from our judges regarding why they won.

Judges comment: Angel landed third place in Radical with an old friend of ours, his Mad Max Interceptor, which has incredible work all over it and is a basically perfect tribute to the movie car, with amazing attention to detail and impeccable execution. There’s not much that can be said about this custom that hasn’t been said in its own post. However, just like Romher’s Toy Story Toyota in Modified, it was relegated to only third as it faced stiff competition with a very high level of work, all of which had concepts that emanated from real-life car culture.

Judges comment: Gavrik’s Fairlady was, perhaps, the most technically well achieved car in the entire contest. It’s execution was impeccable and sometimes borderline insane -continuing the hood’s shut line to its very edge, as the casting didn’t originally have it marked to the end of it- and had details that made it so much more than a mere top-hacking job, like the deletion of the front oil cooler and side exhaust recess, both so well disguised that they look like they never were there in the first place. The hand-made elements such as the roll bar, exhaust system, mirrors, and even the wheels, which were modified to make them wider, are offset by an incredible paint job that, even if it has a strong Shelby Cobra whiff to it, it also gives the car a very american flavor to it, as if someone built it because he didn’t have enough dough for a Shelby but that wasn’t gonna stop him from having the blast of his life in an old roadster.

Judges comment: It’s quite easy to just loose the way with a custom with as many elements as the ones present in Romher’s Titan, which makes it all the more exemplary. Maybe the only odd thing we can find in it are the bottles -or at least we think they’re bottles- in the roof rack and trailer, but since this truck was made with snow and ice cruising in mind, we’ll just say they’re there to get them really cold. Aside from that, the truck is very well solved throughout, and the work on it is just massive -custom chassis, scratch-made trailer that opens, etc- but we won’t talk much about it as this custom will appear later on in its own post in Custom Diecast México. By far the most complex custom in the entire contest, with a concept that matches the amazing work, gave Romher the win.

Our sincere thanks to the participants on our 4th contest, some of the customizers that have been with us since the first contest have gotten so much better, and we’re very proud to be able to attest that. We’ll se you all in the next contest, in just a few days!